Brent Spiner Quotes

quotes and sayings
2 min readFeb 2, 2023
  1. My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
  2. Radical surgery is never fun.
  3. If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn’t give up.
  4. There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
  5. I’m an avid biography reader.
  6. Acting is acting.
  7. Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
  8. I don’t read fiction at all.
  9. If I’m not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.
  10. I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we’re going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
  11. I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
  12. Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.
  13. And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
  14. And I think it’s likely that there will be Data’s out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
  15. I think it’s the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
  16. I don’t read Science Fiction.
  17. People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite.

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